Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
There have been rumors that vendors such as Logitech are already working on
such controllers, and you as a developer should probably work on implementing
them in your game, as the effort required to make them work is really small,
and the satisfaction that your player gets when the game works with his controller
is enormous.
The new Game Controller framework allows discovering and connecting compatible
game controllers to your iOS device.
Game center renovations
Game center have several new features that will help you with your games. Some of
them have been listed as follows:
•
Increased limit of leaderboards per application
: Now you can have up to
100 leaderboards in your game.
•
New feature—exchanges
: This allows your turn-based player to initialize
actions even if it is not their turn. Previously, you had to wait for your turn
to even chat, and now you can do that on other players' turns if the game
supports that.
•
Improved features to prevent cheating
: Cheating, obviously, is never good,
especially if your game is competitive and has leaderboards. We all know
how such games are infested with hackers, and these new features will
certainly help with that.
Summary
In this chapter, we have learned what new exciting features and APIs iOS 7 has
to offer us. We have found out what Sprite Kit is and why we should use it for
game development and its advantages. We have found out that Apple unified
game controllers, and new ones will be available shortly. If you are reading this
topic, chances are that you are planning to make games for iOS, and Sprite Kit
is an excellent choice.
In the next chapter, we will start working on our first Sprite Kit project, a fully
featured endless runner game.
